Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Shutter island


Two US Marshals (Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo) travel to Ashecliffe, a prison hospital on Shutter Island, where they’ve been called to investigate the disappearance of an inmate who once killed all her children. The story seems most mysterious from the arrival of the two marshals to the hospitals lack of information provided to the marshals. Teddy (Dicaprio) has a flaw he sees flashbacks from the past from the days that his wife died in a fire in his house to the days where he was sent to liberate a Nazi death camp. The insanity in the hospital seems viral.

With Teddys visions becoming worse over time. With his wife appearing in his visions to tell him to get off the island and head back home. Dr. Naehring (Max von Sydow) presence makes the detectives all the more suspicious. All the characters are played most eerily and convincingly. Not once are the viewers thrown into disappointing shocks. Ted Levine’s part as the hospitals warden is also worthy of praise. Teddy is not only riveted on finding the missing patient but also the cause of the strangeness on the island. The final scenes are most shocking and give the viewer the necessary chills. A movie for horror and suspense buffs to watch.

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